Files compatible with mac?

What files are compatible with a mac book pro?  GIF,JPEG.BMP,DOC,PDF.  Does the mac have compatibility mode for files like windows does?

spacefracture wrote:
Compatablity mode meanig will the file open on older systems such as windows xp which i need to do for school. 
(1) There is no such thing on Windows. The only 'compatibility mode' is, as I as said above, a facility which allows older programmes to run under newer versions of Windows. Again, as I said, it applies to executables, which does not include any of the formats you mentioned in your OP.
(2) A blind guess: You may be referring not to Windows, but MS Office (which, unlike Windows, is not an operating system, but a suite of applications). A compatibility mode was introduced in Office 2007. When working in this mode, features which are incompatible with the formats used by earlier versions of MS Office are disabled. (Note that this is relevant only to one of the formats you mentioned in your OP, ie .doc.) While neither Excel 2008 nor Excel 2011 have compatibility modes, Word 2008 and Word 2011 have such a mode. It is activated by opening or saving a document in an older format (.doc). See,
<http://mac.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/word/item/92b2e261-43af-4756-9962- 1beb180fb570>
Both Excel and Word have a compatibility check function (Compatibility Report), whose name is self-explanatory. See, for instance,
<http://mac.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/excel/item/71638f37-030d-43f0-884f -99c90e2cc974>
Note that none of these have anything to do with formats such as JPEG; it applies only to MS Office formats.

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